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The West Bank Jitters
May 21 , 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
Commentary Views: 3287
Last week in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intent of formally annexing some parts of the disputed West Bank to their territory , King Abdullah II of Jordan warned the Israelis ...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Deal of the century , Israel , MEPP , Palestine , West Bank

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 20, 2020
May 20 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 2528
Economic Celebrities and ostentatious wealth lose their appeal in coronavirus crisis

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : CPEC , Deflation , Drug trials , Facebook Shops , Inflation , Microelectronics , Qiao Liang , Reshoring , Tsai Ing-wen

After South Korea, Vietnam another example to emulate in fighting Covid-19
May 20 , 2020 Prof Rajaram Panda
Article Views: 3719
Introduction
Amongst Asian countries, three countries – South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam – have been successful vis-a-vis the European nations and rest of Asia in containing the spread of the novel Coronavirus or Covid-19. Like South Korea and Taiwan, Vietnam is being seen as a model for other nations to emulate.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Contact tracing , Coronavirus , Developing vaccine , Farmacia Orient , Low-cost model , Medical supplies , Stakeholder , Testing kits , Ventilator , Vingroup , Warlike preparation

Regulating the Use of Autonomous Weapon Systems
May 19 , 2020 Mayuri Mukherjee
Commentary Views: 3734
Instead of worrying about technical definitions, focus on how humans can retain control over their machines
 Terminators running amok; the wanton killing of human beings; the end of civilisation as we know it; these are the sort of images that come to mind when the word ‘killer robots’ is used.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : artificial intelligence , Emerging technologies , International humanitarian law , Lethal autonomous weapons , UN CCW

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 19, 2020
May 19 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 2648
Faced with economic calamity and the threat of the coronavirus further fracturing the European Union, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany on May 18 broke with decades of German economic orthodoxy and agreed to back the idea of collective European debt to help those countries that have been hit hardest by the pandemic.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Airline Travel , BeiDou , Dengue , Inflation , Merkel , Moderna , Oil and Gas , Taiwan , tariffs , TRIPS , WHA

Myanmar Round Up: April 2020
May 19 , 2020 Dr Cchavi Vasisht, Research Associate, VIF
Article Views: 4122
Myanmar continues to struggle amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing its deep socio-economic problems, concerning poverty, hunger, internally displaced people and ethnic armed organisations. The milita...

Myanmar, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Myanmar; Burma;

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